Modern pharmacies face a question worth asking honestly: should your most expensive, hardest-to-replace clinical staff still be the main source for catching packaging errors, especially blister card checking? As pharmacies expand adherence programs, step into LTC At Home, and absorb rising script volume against rising labor costs, manual inspection is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain. Human expertise remains essential, but relying solely on visual review creates challenges that automation can help solve.
The change in workload and time spent per inspection can be staggering. Currently available automation technology that combines blister card automated packaging with integrated vision inspection software can decrease pharmacist check time by up to 83% meaning the average of 4.5 minutes of inspection time per card can drop to as little 45 seconds. Read more.